· Private foundation
The Nancy H and William J Gordon Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT SCHOOL | $12,800 |
| BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT | $12,500 |
| FOCUS | $3,300 |
| MOCKINGBIRD MINISTRIES INC | $3,300 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $3,300 |
| ALSAC-ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,300 |
| GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC | $3,300 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $3,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,300 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,300 |
| CROSSNORE SCHOOL & CHILDREN'S HOME | $3,300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT4× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +822%
- TCTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $39k · revenue +32%
- CCCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CECHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $65k
- VAVIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- LFLINVILLE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
To assist parents in developing their children to be strong in mind, spirit, and body, using christ as their example and teaching the principles found in god's holy word, the bible.
To educate children by engaging them actively in experiences that challenge students to solve problems as cooperative, confident, and responsible learners.
A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
Redeemer school is a community of like-minded families committed to nurturing students in their relationship with jesus christ and engaging them in the life-long pursuit of wisdom and knowledge as they discover, embrace and integrate god's…
Gilman school is a diverse community dedicated to educating boys in mind, body and spirit through particular emphasis upon academic excellence, athletic participation and aesthetic appreciation. gilman seeks to produce men of character and…
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
See schedule o.in partnership with committed parents, our mission is to provide a purpose-driven college preparatory program, within a vibrant christ-centered environment that empowers students to discover their passions and to develop…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mockingbird Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MOCKINGBIRD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Nancy H and William J Gordon Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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